Isabella Rozendaal

  • Dressing My First Deer Cut Me to the Core

    While on a hunting trip in Germany, I got up close and personal with Franz Joseph—not the Austrian emperor, but a majestic old stag who lived his life in a deer park.

  • Hunting Wild Boar Is a Waiting Game in Pitch-Black Darkness

    Hunting season is coming to an end, so I’m going on one last big game hunt in Germany with a guy named Sjoerd. He's the first hunter I've met from my generation in Amsterdam, which is unique because hunting in Holland is hardly a youthful affair.

  • Cooking Wild Duck Is a Plucking Matter

    I’ve eaten freshly shot elk heart for breakfast in the Rockies; I’ve removed the scrotum of a German boar without batting an eye. But that was all in the great outdoors. The presence of wild duck innards in my living room is a culinary labor of love I...

  • Wild Duck Sausage with Orange and Fennel Recipe

    Pork belly balances the gamey flavor of wild duck in this hearty hunters sausage with fennel and oranges.

  • I Went Duck Hunting with Dutch Aristocrats

    Only two percent of the Dutch population hunts. Americans call hunting a sport, but Dutch hunters will go to great lengths to make sure nobody interprets what they do as pleasurable—even though they love it.

  • Isabella Rozendaal

    Friendship is very important to me. These photos are all of my good friend Wyne Veen. Wyne was in most of my photos for a long time for obvious reasons: She was always around and she is quite pretty. She looks good with or without clothes. This is a...